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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5997, 5 February 1881, Page 3

Has any paragrapher ever remarked that Eve was only a side issue in he great human race ? An Austrian schoolmistress feels unkindly toward .Miss Gladstone, the daughter of the Eng ish premier, and expresses her feelings in a letter to the Vienna New Free Press. Miss Gladstone teaches a school at Hawarden, because she think it a good thing for a lady to bu useful, and the public praise bestowed upon her for putting her views into practice has reached the Austrian schoolmistress. The latter upbraids the English lady for taking work anil bread from some poor younng woman who is deprived of a situation because a " lady "—whose chief duty, as the schoolmistress thinks, is to be ornamental—chooses to play at ku-epingschool. This Austrian censor would probably h> Id to the same view, even if she knew that Miss Gladstone created and carried on at her own expense the school that is so fortunate as to have her services as a teacher. We understand that the following communication to the AtheiiiL'um, from an Edinburgh correspondent, accurately describes the situation of a Hairs at the Edinburgh Philosophical Library in relation to OuiJa's novels:—"lt may be of interest to your readers to learn that the directors of the Edinburgh Philosophical Library have recently given orders for ' Ouida s' novels to be withdrawn from circulation. A large number of her novels lie on the shelves. Ao such order has been given regarding the ma" izines in which some of her short stories first'appeared." Tiie morale of these works was we believe, recently discussed by the directors of the Philosophical Institution, and though it was not generally considered that they were "all bad," serious objection was taken to several of the series. No formal resolution was come to on the subject, bit in compliance with the wishes of some of the directors, the whole of the works were withdrawn from circulation, and all applications for the volumes uncompromisingly refused. It is said, however, that since "Ouida's was brought specially under their notice, some of the directors of the institution have gone in for a hearty course of reading of the objectionable novels, with a view, probably, to qualify themselves for officially deciding the question when it again comes I before them.